The Arkansas Board of Corrections isn't disputing that it violated laws on public records and that it illegally hired a ...

A smaller prison in western or NW Arkansas and completion of a planned addition in Calico Rock would be better, Lee Watson ...

When Pulaski County resident Bryan Burrow declined a judge's offer of 30 years behind bars, he was seeking a second chance in ...

Gravel & Grit is a newsletter published on Substack by opponents of the planned 3,000-bed state prison in Franklin County.

A Muslim inmate and self-described "jailhouse lawyer" initiated a transfer to federal prison, the Arkansas Department of Corrections said, and wasn't moved for retaliatory reasons.

The employees unwittingly helped Grant Hardin, a former police chief, walk out of a prison in May, dressed in a fake law ...

New public records reveal infrastructure and spending concerns around Arkansas' proposed $1 billion Franklin County prison ...

Two Arkansas prison employees have been fired after an inmate known as the “Devil in the Ozarks” escaped in May ...

Officials said a kitchen supervisor left Grant Hardin alone on a loading dock and a tower guard let him out the gates.

Skeptical Arkansas lawmakers seemed unwilling to accept Thursday that the escape of a convicted murderer and rapist was the ...

The Arkansas Department of Corrections says 10 percent of its inmates are housed in county jails. The nonprofit Prison Policy Initiative says nearly 1 in 1,000 Arkansans are in prison, far higher ...

After a nearly two-week-long search in the rugged mountains of northern Arkansas, authorities recaptured Hardin on Friday 1.5 miles northwest of the prison.